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merged into a new corporation, Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd.
−Removed: On January 3, 2022, the Company changed its corporate name
−Removed: to Singularity Future Technology Ltd.
+Added: On January 3, 2022, the Company changed its corporate
+Added: name to Singularity Future Technology Ltd.
to reflect its expanded operations into the digital assets business.
−Removed: Currently, we primarily focus
−Removed: on providing freight logistics services, which mainly include shipping, warehouse services and other logistical support to steel companies
−Removed: In 2017, we began exploring
−Removed: new opportunities to expand our business and generate more revenue.
−Removed: These opportunities ranged from complementary businesses to other
−Removed: new service and product initiatives.
−Removed: In the fiscal year 2022, while we continued to provide our traditional freight logistics business,
−Removed: we expanded our services to include warehousing services provided by our U.S.
−Removed: subsidiary Brilliant Warehouse Service Inc.
−Removed: We are currently engaged in
−Removed: providing freight logistics services including warehouse services, which are operated by our subsidiaries Trans Pacific Shipping Limited
−Removed: and Ningbo Saimeinuo Web Technology Ltd.
−Removed: in China and Gorgeous Trading Ltd.
+Added: Currently, we primarily
+Added: focus on providing freight logistics services, which mainly include shipping, warehouse services and other logistical support to steel
+Added: 2017, we began exploring new opportunities to expand our business and generate more revenue.
+Added: These opportunities ranged from complementary
+Added: businesses to other new service and product initiatives.
+Added: In the fiscal year 2022, while we continued to provide our traditional freight
+Added: logistics business, we expanded our services to include warehousing services provided by our U.S.
+Added: subsidiary Brilliant Warehouse Service
+Added: are currently engaged in providing freight logistics services including warehouse services, which are operated by our subsidiaries Trans
+Added: Pacific Shipping Limited in China and Gorgeous Trading Ltd.
and Brilliant Warehouse Service Inc in the United States.
−Removed: Our range of services include transportation, warehouse, collection, last-mile delivery, drop shipping, customs clearance, and overseas
−Removed: transit delivery.
−Removed: As a holding company with
−Removed: no material operations, conduct substantially all of our operations through subsidiaries established in the United States, the People’s
−Removed: Republic of China, or the PRC or China and Hong Kong.
−Removed: However, neither the holding company nor any of the Company’s Chinese subsidiaries
−Removed: conduct any operations through contractual arrangements with a variable interest entity based in China.
−Removed: Investors in our common stock
−Removed: should be aware that they may never directly hold equity interests in the PRC operating entities, but rather equity interests solely
−Removed: in Singularity, our Virginia holding company.
−Removed: Furthermore, shareholders may face difficulties enforcing their legal rights under United
−Removed: States securities laws against our directors and officers who are located outside of the United States.
−Removed: The diagram below shows our
−Removed: corporate structure as of the date of this report.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated in the diagram, all the subsidiaries of the Company are wholly owned.
+Added: Our range of services
+Added: include transportation, warehouse, collection, last-mile delivery, drop shipping, customs clearance, and overseas transit delivery.
+Added: a holding company with no material operations, conduct substantially all of our operations through subsidiaries established in the United
+Added: States, the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC” or “China”) and Hong Kong.
+Added: However, neither the holding
+Added: company nor any of the Company’s Chinese subsidiaries conduct any operations through contractual arrangements with a variable interest
+Added: entity based in China.
+Added: Investors in our common stock should be aware that they may never directly hold equity interests in the PRC operating
+Added: entities, but rather equity interests solely in Singularity, our Virginia holding company.
+Added: Furthermore, shareholders may face difficulties
+Added: enforcing their legal rights under United States securities laws against our directors and officers who are located outside of the United
+Added: diagram below shows our corporate structure as of the date of this report.
+Added: otherwise indicated in the diagram, all the subsidiaries of the Company are wholly owned.
of June 30, 2024, the Company’s subsidiaries were as follows:
−Removed: Sino-Global Shipping New York Inc.
−Removed: A New York Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on May 03, 2013
−Removed: Primarily engaged in freight logistics services
−Removed: 100% owned by the Company
−Removed: Sino-Global Shipping HK Ltd.
−Removed: A Hong Kong Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on September 22, 2008
−Removed: No material operations
+Added: Shipping New York Inc.
+Added: New York corporation
owned by the Company
−Removed: Thor Miner Inc.
−Removed: (“Thor Miner”)
−Removed: A Delaware Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on October 13, 2021
−Removed: Primarily engaged in sales of crypto mining machines
+Added: on May 03, 2013
+Added: engaged in freight logistics services
+Added: Shipping HK Ltd.
+Added: Hong Kong corporation
owned by the Company
−Removed: Trans Pacific Shipping Ltd.
+Added: on September 22, 2008
+Added: material operations
+Added: Pacific Shipping Ltd.
(“Trans Pacific Beijing”)
−Removed: A PRC limited liability company
−Removed: Incorporated on November 13, 2007.
−Removed: Primarily engaged in freight logistics services
−Removed: 100% owned the Company
−Removed: Trans Pacific Logistic Shanghai Ltd.
+Added: PRC limited liability company
+Added: owned by the Company
+Added: on November 13, 2007.
+Added: engaged in freight logistics services
+Added: Pacific Logistic Shanghai Ltd.
(“Trans Pacific Shanghai”)
−Removed: A PRC limited liability company
−Removed: Incorporated on May 31, 2009
−Removed: Primarily engaged in freight logistics services
+Added: PRC limited liability company
owned by Trans Pacific Beijing
−Removed: Ningbo Saimeinuo Web Technology Ltd.
−Removed: (“SGS Ningbo”)
−Removed: A PRC limited liability company
−Removed: Incorporated on September 11,2017
−Removed: Primarily engaged in freight logistics services
−Removed: 100% owned by SGS NY
−Removed: Blumargo IT Solution Ltd.
−Removed: A New York Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on December 14, 2020
−Removed: No material operations
−Removed: 100% owned by SGS NY
−Removed: Gorgeous Trading Ltd (“Gorgeous Trading”)
−Removed: A Texas Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on July 01, 2021
−Removed: Primarily engaged in warehouse related services
+Added: on May 31, 2009
+Added: engaged in freight logistics services
+Added: material operations
+Added: Trading Ltd (“Gorgeous Trading”)
+Added: Texas corporation
owned by SGS NY
−Removed: Brilliant Warehouse Service Inc.
+Added: on July 01, 2021
+Added: engaged in warehouse related services
+Added: Warehouse Service Inc.
(“Brilliant Warehouse”)
−Removed: A Texas Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on April 19,2021
−Removed: Primarily engaged in warehouse house related services
+Added: Texas corporation
owned by SGS NY
−Removed: Phi Electric Motor In.
−Removed: A New York Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on August 30, 2021
+Added: on April 19, 2021
+Added: engaged in warehouse house related services
+Added: Electric Motor In.
+Added: New York Corporation
+Added: on August 30, 2021
No operations
owned by SGS NY
−Removed: SG Shipping &Risk Solution Inc(“SGSR”)
−Removed: A New York Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on September 29, 2021
−Removed: No material operations
+Added: Shipping & Risk Solution Inc, (“SGSR”)
+Added: New York corporation
owned by the Company
−Removed: SG Link LLC (“SG Link”)
−Removed: A New York Corporation
−Removed: Incorporated on December 23, 2021
−Removed: No operations
−Removed: 100% owned by SG Shipping & Risk Solution Inc on January 25, 2022
+Added: on September 29, 2021
+Added: material operations
+Added: Link LLC (“SG Link”)
+Added: New York corporation
+Added: owned by SG Shipping & Risk Solution Inc
+Added: on December 23, 2021
+Added: material operations
+Added: Energy Tech Limited (“New Energy”)
+Added: New York corporation
+Added: owned by the Company
+Added: on September 19, 2023
+Added: material operations
+Added: (Shenzhen) Technology Ltd.
+Added: Mainland China corporation
+Added: owned by the Company
+Added: (“SGS Shenzhen”)
+Added: on September 4, 2023
+Added: material operations
equity structure is a direct holding structure.
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and as a result, we do not intend to distribute earnings or pay any cash dividends.
−Removed: To address persistent capital
−Removed: outflows and the RMB’s depreciation against the U.S.
−Removed: dollar in the fourth quarter of 2016, the People’s Bank of China and
−Removed: the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, have implemented a series of capital control measures in the subsequent months,
−Removed: including stricter vetting procedures for China-based companies to remit foreign currency for overseas acquisitions, dividend payments
−Removed: and shareholder loan repayments.
−Removed: The PRC government may continue to strengthen its capital controls and our PRC subsidiaries’ dividends
−Removed: and other distributions may be subject to tightened scrutiny in the future.
−Removed: The PRC government also imposes controls on the conversion
−Removed: of RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC.
−Removed: Therefore, we may experience difficulties in completing
−Removed: the administrative procedures necessary to obtain and remit foreign currency for the payment of dividends from our profits, if any.
−Removed: if our subsidiaries in the PRC incur debt on their own in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to
−Removed: pay dividends or make other payments.
−Removed: In addition, the Enterprise
−Removed: Income Tax Law and its implementation rules provide that a withholding tax at a rate of 10% will be applicable to dividends payable by
−Removed: Chinese companies to non-PRC-resident enterprises unless reduced under treaties or arrangements between the PRC central government and
−Removed: the governments of other countries or regions where the non-PRC resident enterprises are tax resident.
−Removed: Pursuant to the tax agreement between
−Removed: Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the withholding tax rate in respect to the payment of dividends by a PRC
−Removed: enterprise to a Hong Kong enterprise may be reduced to 5% from a standard rate of 10%.
−Removed: However, if the relevant tax authorities determine
−Removed: that our transactions or arrangements are for the primary purpose of enjoying a favorable tax treatment, the relevant tax authorities
−Removed: may adjust the favorable withholding tax in the future.
−Removed: Accordingly, there is no assurance that the reduced 5% withholding rate will apply
−Removed: to dividends received by our Hong Kong subsidiary from our PRC subsidiaries.
−Removed: This withholding tax will reduce the amount of dividends
−Removed: we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries.
−Removed: Because a significant part
−Removed: of our operations are located in the PRC through our subsidiaries, we are subject to certain legal and operational risks associated with
−Removed: our operations in China, including changes in the legal, political and economic policies of the Chinese government, the relations between
−Removed: China and the U.S, or Chinese or U.S regulations may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of
+Added: address persistent capital outflows and the RMB’s depreciation against the U.S.
+Added: dollar in the fourth quarter of 2016, the People’s
+Added: Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, have implemented a series of capital control measures in the
+Added: subsequent months, including stricter vetting procedures for China-based companies to remit foreign currency for overseas acquisitions,
+Added: dividend payments and shareholder loan repayments.
+Added: The PRC government may continue to strengthen its capital controls and our PRC subsidiaries’
+Added: dividends and other distributions may be subject to tightened scrutiny in the future.
+Added: The PRC government also imposes controls on the
+Added: conversion of RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC.
+Added: Therefore, we may experience difficulties
+Added: in completing the administrative procedures necessary to obtain and remit foreign currency for the payment of dividends from our profits,
+Added: Furthermore, if our subsidiaries in the PRC incur debt on their own in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict
+Added: their ability to pay dividends or make other payments.
+Added: addition, the Enterprise Income Tax Law and its implementation rules provide that a withholding tax at a rate of 10% will be applicable
+Added: to dividends payable by Chinese companies to non-PRC-resident enterprises unless reduced under treaties or arrangements between the PRC
+Added: central government and the governments of other countries or regions where the non-PRC resident enterprises are tax resident.
+Added: to the tax agreement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the withholding tax rate in respect to the
+Added: payment of dividends by a PRC enterprise to a Hong Kong enterprise may be reduced to 5% from a standard rate of 10%.
+Added: However, if the
+Added: relevant tax authorities determine that our transactions or arrangements are for the primary purpose of enjoying a favorable tax treatment,
+Added: the relevant tax authorities may adjust the favorable withholding tax in the future.
+Added: Accordingly, there is no assurance that the reduced
+Added: 5% withholding rate will apply to dividends received by our Hong Kong subsidiary from our PRC subsidiaries.
+Added: This withholding tax will
+Added: reduce the amount of dividends we may receive from our PRC subsidiaries.
+Added: some of our operations are located in the PRC through our subsidiaries, we are subject to certain legal and operational risks associated
+Added: with our operations in China, including changes in the legal, political and economic policies of the Chinese government, the relations
+Added: between China and the U.S, or Chinese or U.S regulations may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results
+Added: of operations.
PRC laws and regulations governing our current business operations are sometimes vague and uncertain, and therefore, these
risks may result in a material change in our operations and the value of our common stock, or could significantly limit or completely
−Removed: hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline
−Removed: or be worthless.
+Added: hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly
+Added: decline or be worthless.
Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations
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reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
−Removed: believe that we will not be subject to cybersecurity review with
−Removed: the Cyberspace Administration of China, or the “CAC,”, since we currently do not have over one million users’ personal
−Removed: information and do not anticipate that we will be collecting over one million users’ personal information in the foreseeable future,
−Removed: which we understand might otherwise subject us to the Cybersecurity Review Measures.
−Removed: We do not believe that our subsidiaries are
−Removed: directly subject to these regulatory actions or statements, as we have not implemented any monopolistic behavior and our business does
−Removed: not involve the collection of user data or implicate cybersecurity.
−Removed: As of the date hereof, no relevant laws or regulations in the PRC
−Removed: explicitly require us to seek approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or the CSRC, or any other PRC governmental authorities
−Removed: for future offerings, nor has our Virginia holding company or any of our subsidiaries received any inquiry, notice, warning or sanctions
−Removed: regarding previous offerings from the CSRC or any other PRC governmental authorities.
−Removed: However, on February 17, 2023, the CSRC promulgated
−Removed: Trial Administrative Measures of the Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies (the “Overseas Listing Trial
−Removed: Measures”) and five relevant guidelines, which became effective on March 31, 2023.
−Removed: According to the Overseas Listing Trial
−Removed: Measures, PRC domestic companies that seek to offer and list securities in overseas markets, either in direct or indirect means, are required
−Removed: to fulfill the filing procedure with the CSRC and report relevant information.
−Removed: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures provides that an overseas
−Removed: listing or offering is explicitly prohibited, if any of the following:
−Removed: (1) such securities offering and listing is explicitly prohibited
−Removed: by provisions in laws, administrative regulations and relevant state rules;
−Removed: (2) the intended securities offering and listing may endanger
−Removed: national security as reviewed and determined by competent authorities under the State Council in accordance with law;
−Removed: (3) the domestic
−Removed: company intending to make the securities offering and listing, or its controlling shareholder(s) and the actual controller, have committed
−Removed: relevant crimes such as corruption, bribery, embezzlement, misappropriation of property or undermining the order of the socialist market
−Removed: economy during the latest three years;
−Removed: (4) the domestic company intending to make the securities offering and listing is currently under
−Removed: investigations for suspicion of criminal offenses or major violations of laws and regulations, and no conclusion has yet been made thereof;
−Removed: or (5) there are material ownership disputes over equity held by the domestic company’s controlling shareholder(s) or by other shareholder(s)
−Removed: that are controlled by the controlling shareholder(s) and/or actual controller.
−Removed: The Overseas Listing Trial
−Removed: Measures also provide that if the issuer meets both the following criteria, the overseas securities offering and listing conducted by
−Removed: such issuer will be deemed as indirect overseas offering by PRC domestic companies:
−Removed: (1) 50% or more of any of the issuer’s operating
−Removed: revenue, total profit, total assets or net assets as documented in its audited consolidated financial statements for the most recent fiscal
−Removed: year is accounted for by domestic companies;
−Removed: and (2) the issuer’s main business activities are conducted in China, or its main place(s)
−Removed: of business are located in China, or the majority of senior management staff in charge of its business operations and management are PRC
−Removed: citizens or have their usual place(s) of residence located in China.
−Removed: Where an issuer submits an application for initial public offering
−Removed: to competent overseas regulators, such issuer must file with the CSRC within three business days after such application is submitted.
−Removed: In addition, the Overseas Listing Trial Measures provide that the direct or indirect overseas listings of the assets of domestic companies
−Removed: through one or more acquisitions, share swaps, transfers or other transaction arrangements shall be subject to filing procedures in accordance
−Removed: with the Overseas Listing Trial Measures.
−Removed: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures also requires subsequent reports to be filed with the CSRC
−Removed: on material events, such as change of control or voluntary or forced delisting of the issuer(s) who have completed overseas offerings
−Removed: and listings.
−Removed: At a press conference held
−Removed: for these new regulations (“Press Conference”), officials from the CSRC clarified that the domestic companies that have already
−Removed: been listed overseas on or before March 31, 2023 shall be deemed as existing issuers (the “Existing Issuers”).
−Removed: Existing Issuers
−Removed: are not required to complete the filling procedures immediately, and they shall be required to file with the CSRC upon occurrences of
−Removed: certain subsequent matters such as follow-on offerings of securities.
−Removed: According to the Overseas Listing Trial Measures and the Press Conference,
−Removed: the existing domestic companies that have completed overseas offering and listing before March 31, 2023, such as us, will not be required
−Removed: to perform filing procedures for the completed overseas securities issuance and listing.
−Removed: However, from the effective date of the regulation,
−Removed: any of our subsequent securities offering in the same overseas market or subsequent securities offering and listing in other overseas
−Removed: markets shall be subject to the filing requirement with the CSRC within three working days after the offering is completed or after the
−Removed: relevant application is submitted to the relevant overseas authorities, respectively.
−Removed: If it is determined that any approval, filing or
−Removed: other administrative procedures from other PRC governmental authorities is required for any future offering or listing, we cannot assure
−Removed: you that we can obtain the required approval or accomplish the required filings or other regulatory procedures in a timely manner, or
−Removed: If we fail to fulfill filing procedure as stipulated by the Trial Measures or offer and list securities in an overseas market
−Removed: in violation of the Trial Measures, the CSRC may order rectification, issue warnings to us, and impose a fine of between RMB1,000,000
−Removed: and RMB10,000,000.
−Removed: Persons-in-charge and other persons that are directly liable for such failure shall be warned and each imposed a fine
−Removed: from RMB500,000 to RMB5,000,000.
−Removed: Controlling shareholders and actual controlling persons of us that organize or instruct such violations
−Removed: shall be imposed a fine from RMB1,000,000 and RMB10,000,000.
−Removed: On February 24, 2023, the
−Removed: CSRC published the Provisions on Strengthening the Confidentiality and Archives Administration Related to the Overseas Securities Offering
−Removed: and Listing by Domestic Enterprises (the “Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration”), which came into effect
+Added: believe that we will not be subject to cybersecurity review with the Cyberspace Administration of China, or the “CAC,”, since
+Added: we currently do not have over one million users’ personal information and do not anticipate that we will be collecting over one
+Added: million users’ personal information in the foreseeable future, which we understand might otherwise subject us to the Cybersecurity
+Added: Review Measures.
+Added: We do not believe that our subsidiaries are directly subject to these regulatory actions or statements, as we have not
+Added: implemented any monopolistic behavior and our business does not involve the collection of user data or implicate cybersecurity.
+Added: the date hereof, no relevant laws or regulations in the PRC explicitly require us to seek approval from the China Securities Regulatory
+Added: Commission, or the CSRC, or any other PRC governmental authorities for future offerings, nor has our Virginia holding company or any
+Added: of our subsidiaries received any inquiry, notice, warning or sanctions regarding previous offerings from the CSRC or any other PRC governmental
+Added: However, on February 17, 2023, the CSRC promulgated Trial Administrative Measures of the Overseas Securities Offering and
+Added: Listing by Domestic Companies (the “Overseas Listing Trial Measures”) and five relevant guidelines, which became effective
on March 31, 2023.
−Removed: The Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration requires that, in the process of overseas issuance and
−Removed: listing of securities by domestic entities, the domestic entities, and securities companies and securities service institutions that provide
−Removed: relevant securities service shall strictly implement the provisions of relevant laws and regulations and the requirements of these provisions,
−Removed: establish and improve rules on confidentiality and archives administration.
−Removed: Where the domestic entities provide or publicly disclose documents,
−Removed: materials or other items related to the state secrets and government work secrets to the relevant securities companies, securities service
−Removed: institutions, overseas regulatory authorities, or other entities or individuals, the companies shall apply for approval of competent departments
−Removed: with the authority of examination and approval in accordance with law and report the matter to the secrecy administrative departments
−Removed: at the same level for record filing.
−Removed: Where there is unclear or controversial whether or not the concerned materials are related to state
−Removed: secrets, the materials shall be reported to the relevant secrecy administrative departments for determination.
−Removed: However, there remain uncertainties
−Removed: regarding the further interpretation and implementation of the Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration.
−Removed: As of the date of this report,
−Removed: our PRC subsidiaries have obtained the requisite licenses and permits from the PRC government authorities that are material for the business
−Removed: operations of our PRC subsidiaries.
−Removed: In addition, as of the date of this annual report, we and our PRC subsidiaries are not required
−Removed: to obtain approval or permission from the CSRC or the CAC or any other entity that is required to approve our PRC subsidiaries’
−Removed: operations or required for us to offer securities to foreign investors under any currently effective PRC laws, regulations, and regulatory
−Removed: If it is determined that we are subject to filing requirements imposed by the CSRC under the Overseas Listing Regulations
−Removed: or approvals from other PRC regulatory authorities or other procedures, including the cybersecurity review under the revised Cybersecurity
−Removed: Review Measures, for our future offshore offerings, it would be uncertain whether we can or how long it will take us to complete such
−Removed: procedures or obtain such approval and any such approval could be rescinded.
−Removed: Any failure to obtain or delay in completing such procedures
−Removed: or obtaining such approval for our offshore offerings, or a rescission of any such approval if obtained by us, would subject us to sanctions
−Removed: by the CSRC or other PRC regulatory authorities for failure to file with the CSRC or failure to seek approval from other government authorization
−Removed: for our offshore offerings.
−Removed: These regulatory authorities may impose fines and penalties on our operations in China, limit our ability
−Removed: to pay dividends outside of China, limit our operating privileges in China, delay or restrict the repatriation of the proceeds from our
−Removed: offshore offerings into China or take other actions that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results
−Removed: of operations, and prospects, as well as the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: The CSRC or other PRC regulatory authorities also may
−Removed: take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to halt our offshore offerings before settlement and delivery of the securities
−Removed: Consequently, if investors engage in market trading or other activities in anticipation of and prior to settlement and delivery,
−Removed: they do so at the risk that settlement and delivery may not occur.
−Removed: In addition, if the CSRC or other regulatory authorities later promulgate
−Removed: new rules or explanations requiring that we obtain their approvals or accomplish the required filing or other regulatory procedures for
−Removed: our prior offshore offerings, we may be unable to obtain a waiver of such approval requirements, if and when procedures are established
−Removed: to obtain such a waiver.
−Removed: Any uncertainties or negative publicity regarding such approval requirement could materially and adversely affect
−Removed: our business, prospects, financial condition, reputation, and the trading price of our common stock.
−Removed: Since these statements and
−Removed: regulatory actions by the PRC government are newly published and official guidance and related implementation rules have not been issued,
−Removed: it is uncertain how soon legislative or administrative regulation making bodies will respond and what existing or new laws or regulations
−Removed: or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated, if any, and the potential impact such modified or new
−Removed: laws and regulations will have on our daily business operation, the ability to accept foreign investments and list on an U.S.
−Removed: foreign exchange.
−Removed: The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, or the SCNPC, or other PRC regulatory authorities may
−Removed: in the future promulgate laws, regulations or implementing rules that requires our company or any of our subsidiaries to obtain regulatory
−Removed: approval from Chinese authorities before future offerings in the U.S.
−Removed: In other words, although the Company is currently not required to
−Removed: obtain permission from any of the PRC federal or local government to obtain such permission and has not received any denial to list on
+Added: According to the Overseas Listing Trial Measures, PRC domestic companies that seek to offer and list securities in
+Added: overseas markets, either in direct or indirect means, are required to fulfill the filing procedure with the CSRC and report relevant
+Added: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures provides that an overseas listing or offering is explicitly prohibited, if any of the
+Added: (1) such securities offering and listing is explicitly prohibited by provisions in laws, administrative regulations and relevant
+Added: (2) the intended securities offering and listing may endanger national security as reviewed and determined by competent
+Added: authorities under the State Council in accordance with law;
+Added: (3) the domestic company intending to make the securities offering and listing,
+Added: or its controlling shareholder(s) and the actual controller, have committed relevant crimes such as corruption, bribery, embezzlement,
+Added: misappropriation of property or undermining the order of the socialist market economy during the latest three years;
+Added: (4) the domestic
+Added: company intending to make the securities offering and listing is currently under investigations for suspicion of criminal offenses or
+Added: major violations of laws and regulations, and no conclusion has yet been made thereof;
+Added: or (5) there are material ownership disputes over
+Added: equity held by the domestic company’s controlling shareholder(s) or by other shareholder(s) that are controlled by the controlling
+Added: shareholder(s) and/or actual controller.
+Added: Overseas Listing Trial Measures also provide that if the issuer meets both the following criteria, the overseas securities offering and
+Added: listing conducted by such issuer will be deemed as indirect overseas offering by PRC domestic companies:
+Added: (1) 50% or more of any of the
+Added: issuer’s operating revenue, total profit, total assets or net assets as documented in its audited consolidated financial statements
+Added: for the most recent fiscal year is accounted for by domestic companies;
+Added: and (2) the issuer’s main business activities are conducted
+Added: in China, or its main place(s) of business are located in China, or the majority of senior management staff in charge of its business
+Added: operations and management are PRC citizens or have their usual place(s) of residence located in China.
+Added: Where an issuer submits an application
+Added: for initial public offering to competent overseas regulators, such issuer must file with the CSRC within three business days after such
+Added: application is submitted.
+Added: In addition, the Overseas Listing Trial Measures provide that the direct or indirect overseas listings of the
+Added: assets of domestic companies through one or more acquisitions, share swaps, transfers or other transaction arrangements shall be subject
+Added: to filing procedures in accordance with the Overseas Listing Trial Measures.
+Added: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures also requires subsequent
+Added: reports to be filed with the CSRC on material events, such as change of control or voluntary or forced delisting of the issuer(s) who
+Added: have completed overseas offerings and listings.
+Added: a press conference held for these new regulations (“Press Conference”), officials from the CSRC clarified that the domestic
+Added: companies that have already been listed overseas on or before March 31, 2023 shall be deemed as existing issuers (the “Existing
+Added: Existing Issuers are not required to complete the filling procedures immediately, and they shall be required to file
+Added: with the CSRC upon occurrences of certain subsequent matters such as follow-on offerings of securities.
+Added: According to the Overseas Listing
+Added: Trial Measures and the Press Conference, the existing domestic companies that have completed overseas offering and listing before March
+Added: 31, 2023, such as us, will not be required to perform filing procedures for the completed overseas securities issuance and listing.
+Added: from the effective date of the regulation, any of our subsequent securities offering in the same overseas market or subsequent securities
+Added: offering and listing in other overseas markets shall be subject to the filing requirement with the CSRC within three working days after
+Added: the offering is completed or after the relevant application is submitted to the relevant overseas authorities, respectively.
+Added: determined that any approval, filing or other administrative procedures from other PRC governmental authorities is required for any future
+Added: offering or listing, we cannot assure you that we can obtain the required approval or accomplish the required filings or other regulatory
+Added: procedures in a timely manner, or at all.
+Added: If we fail to fulfill filing procedure as stipulated by the Trial Measures or offer and list
+Added: securities in an overseas market in violation of the Trial Measures, the CSRC may order rectification, issue warnings to us, and impose
+Added: a fine of between RMB1,000,000 and RMB10,000,000.
+Added: Persons-in-charge and other persons that are directly liable for such failure shall
+Added: be warned and each imposed a fine from RMB500,000 to RMB5,000,000.
+Added: Controlling shareholders and actual controlling persons of us that
+Added: organize or instruct such violations shall be imposed a fine from RMB1,000,000 and RMB10,000,000.
+Added: February 24, 2023, the CSRC published the Provisions on Strengthening the Confidentiality and Archives Administration Related to the
+Added: Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Enterprises (the “Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration”),
+Added: which came into effect on March 31, 2023.
+Added: The Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration requires that, in the process
+Added: of overseas issuance and listing of securities by domestic entities, the domestic entities, and securities companies and securities service
+Added: institutions that provide relevant securities service shall strictly implement the provisions of relevant laws and regulations and the
+Added: requirements of these provisions, establish and improve rules on confidentiality and archives administration.
+Added: Where the domestic entities
+Added: provide or publicly disclose documents, materials or other items related to the state secrets and government work secrets to the relevant
+Added: securities companies, securities service institutions, overseas regulatory authorities, or other entities or individuals, the companies
+Added: shall apply for approval of competent departments with the authority of examination and approval in accordance with law and report the
+Added: matter to the secrecy administrative departments at the same level for record filing.
+Added: Where there is unclear or controversial whether
+Added: or not the concerned materials are related to state secrets, the materials shall be reported to the relevant secrecy administrative departments
+Added: for determination.
+Added: However, there remain uncertainties regarding the further interpretation and implementation of the Provisions on Confidentiality
+Added: and Archives Administration.
+Added: of the date of this report, our PRC subsidiaries have obtained the requisite licenses and permits from the PRC government authorities
+Added: that are material for the business operations of our PRC subsidiaries.
+Added: In addition, as of the date of this annual report, we and our
+Added: PRC subsidiaries are not required to obtain approval or permission from the CSRC or the CAC or any other entity that is required to approve
+Added: our PRC subsidiaries’ operations or required for us to offer securities to foreign investors under any currently effective PRC
+Added: laws, regulations, and regulatory rules.
+Added: If it is determined that we are subject to filing requirements imposed by the CSRC under the
+Added: Overseas Listing Regulations or approvals from other PRC regulatory authorities or other procedures, including the cybersecurity review
+Added: under the revised Cybersecurity Review Measures, for our future offshore offerings, it would be uncertain whether we can or how long
+Added: it will take us to complete such procedures or obtain such approval and any such approval could be rescinded.
+Added: Any failure to obtain or
+Added: delay in completing such procedures or obtaining such approval for our offshore offerings, or a rescission of any such approval if obtained
+Added: by us, would subject us to sanctions by the CSRC or other PRC regulatory authorities for failure to file with the CSRC or failure to
+Added: seek approval from other government authorization for our offshore offerings.
+Added: These regulatory authorities may impose fines and penalties
+Added: on our operations in China, limit our ability to pay dividends outside of China, limit our operating privileges in China, delay or restrict
+Added: the repatriation of the proceeds from our offshore offerings into China or take other actions that could materially and adversely affect
+Added: our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects, as well as the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: other PRC regulatory authorities also may take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to halt our offshore offerings before
+Added: settlement and delivery of the securities offered.
+Added: Consequently, if investors engage in market trading or other activities in anticipation
+Added: of and prior to settlement and delivery, they do so at the risk that settlement and delivery may not occur.
+Added: In addition, if the CSRC
+Added: or other regulatory authorities later promulgate new rules or explanations requiring that we obtain their approvals or accomplish the
+Added: required filing or other regulatory procedures for our prior offshore offerings, we may be unable to obtain a waiver of such approval
+Added: requirements, if and when procedures are established to obtain such a waiver.
+Added: Any uncertainties or negative publicity regarding such
+Added: approval requirement could materially and adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition, reputation, and the trading
+Added: price of our common stock.
+Added: these statements and regulatory actions by the PRC government are newly published and official guidance and related implementation rules
+Added: have not been issued, it is uncertain how soon legislative or administrative regulation making bodies will respond and what existing
+Added: or new laws or regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated, if any, and the potential
+Added: impact such modified or new laws and regulations will have on our daily business operation, the ability to accept foreign investments
+Added: and list on an U.S.
+Added: or other foreign exchange.
+Added: The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, or the SCNPC, or other
+Added: PRC regulatory authorities may in the future promulgate laws, regulations or implementing rules that requires our company or any of our
+Added: subsidiaries to obtain regulatory approval from Chinese authorities before future offerings in the U.S.
+Added: In other words, although the
+Added: Company is currently not required to obtain permission from any of the PRC federal or local government to obtain such permission and
+Added: has not received any denial to list on the U.S.
exchange, our operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly;
−Removed: our ability to offer, or continue to offer, securities
−Removed: to investors would be potentially hindered and the value of our securities might significantly decline or be worthless, by existing or
−Removed: future laws and regulations relating to its business or industry or by intervene or interruption by PRC governmental authorities, if we
−Removed: or our subsidiaries (i) do not receive or maintain such permissions or approvals, (ii) inadvertently conclude that such permissions or
−Removed: approvals are not required, (iii) applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations change and we are required to obtain such permissions
−Removed: or approvals in the future, or (iv) any intervention or interruption by PRC governmental with little advance notice.
+Added: to offer, or continue to offer, securities to investors would be potentially hindered and the value of our securities might significantly
+Added: decline or be worthless, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to its business or industry or by intervene or interruption
+Added: by PRC governmental authorities, if we or our subsidiaries (i) do not receive or maintain such permissions or approvals, (ii) inadvertently
+Added: conclude that such permissions or approvals are not required, (iii) applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations change and we are
+Added: required to obtain such permissions or approvals in the future, or (iv) any intervention or interruption by PRC governmental with little
+Added: advance notice.
see “Risk Factors” beginning on page 15 of this annual report for additional information.
−Removed: Holding Foreign Company Accountable Act
−Removed: Our common stock may be delisted from the Nasdaq under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (“HFCAA”), if the
−Removed: PCAOB is unable to adequately inspect audit documentation located in China, or investigate our auditor.
−Removed: Furthermore, on June 22,
−Removed: 2021, the U.S.
−Removed: Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which was signed into law, and amends
−Removed: the HFCAA and requires the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S.
−Removed: stock exchanges if its auditor
−Removed: is not subject to Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) inspections for two consecutive years instead of
−Removed: Our auditor, Audit Alliance LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that
−Removed: issues the audit report included elsewhere in this annual report, is headquartered in Singapore and is registered with the
−Removed: PCAOB, and was not included in the list of PCAOB Identified Firms in the PCAOB Determination
+Added: Foreign Company Accountable Act
+Added: common stock may be delisted from the Nasdaq under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (“HFCAA”), if the PCAOB
+Added: is unable to adequately inspect audit documentation located in China, or investigate our auditor.
+Added: Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the
+Added: Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which was signed into law, and amends the HFCAA and requires
+Added: the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S.
+Added: stock exchanges if its auditor is not subject to Public Company
+Added: Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) inspections for two consecutive years instead of three.
+Added: Our auditor, Audit Alliance
+Added: LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that issues the audit report included elsewhere in this annual report, is headquartered
+Added: in Singapore and is registered with the PCAOB, and was not included in the list of PCAOB Identified Firms in the PCAOB Determination
Report issued in December 2021.
−Removed: On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB signed
−Removed: the Protocol with the CSRC and the MOF of the People’s Republic of China, governing inspections and investigations of audit
−Removed: firms based in mainland China and Hong Kong.
−Removed: The Protocol remains unpublished and is subject to further explanation and
−Removed: implementation.
−Removed: Pursuant to the fact sheet with respect to the Protocol disclosed by the SEC, the PCAOB shall have independent
−Removed: discretion to select any issuer audits for inspection or investigation and the unfettered ability to transfer information to the
−Removed: On December 15, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it was able to secure complete access to inspect and investigate
−Removed: PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong completely in 2022.
−Removed: The PCAOB Board vacated
−Removed: its previous 2021 determinations that the PCAOB was unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms
−Removed: headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong.
−Removed: However, whether the PCAOB will continue to be able to satisfactorily conduct
−Removed: inspections of PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong is subject to uncertainty and
−Removed: depends on a number of factors out of our, and our auditor’s control.
−Removed: The PCAOB is continuing to demand complete access in
−Removed: China mainland and Hong Kong moving forward and is already making plans to resume regular inspections in early 2023 and beyond, as
−Removed: well as to continue pursuing ongoing investigations and initiate new investigations as needed.
−Removed: The PCAOB has indicated that it will
−Removed: act immediately to consider the need to issue new determinations with the HFCAA if needed.
−Removed: Therefore, the PCAOB in the future may
−Removed: determine that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms in mainland China and Hong Kong.
−Removed: Our auditor’s working papers related to us and our subsidiaries are located in China.
−Removed: If our auditor is not permitted to
−Removed: provide requested audit work papers located in China to the PCAOB, investors would be deprived of the benefits of PCAOB’s
−Removed: oversight of our auditor through such inspections which could result in limitation or restriction to our access to the U.S.
−Removed: markets and trading of our securities may be prohibited under the HFCAA, which would result in the delisting of our securities from
−Removed: See “ Risk Factors - Our common stock may be delisted from the Nasdaq under the Holding Foreign Companies
−Removed: Accountable Act if the PCAOB is unable to adequately inspect audit documentation located in China.
−Removed: The delisting of our common
−Removed: stock, or the threat of their being delisted, may materially and adversely affect the value of your
−Removed: investment .”
−Removed: Recent Developments
−Removed: Since the publication of the
−Removed: Hindenburg Report (as defined below), we have devoted substantial resources and efforts in connection with the investigations by a special
−Removed: committee of our Board of Directors and by U.S.
−Removed: governmental authorities and with respect to the defense of lawsuits and the settlement
−Removed: of lawsuits and claims, which are fully described below.
−Removed: As a result, our business operations have been materially and adversely impacted,
−Removed: including suspension of our business development in North America.
+Added: On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB signed the Protocol with the CSRC and the MOF of the People’s Republic
+Added: of China, governing inspections and investigations of audit firms based in mainland China and Hong Kong.
+Added: The Protocol remains unpublished
+Added: and is subject to further explanation and implementation.
+Added: Pursuant to the fact sheet with respect to the Protocol disclosed by the SEC,
+Added: the PCAOB shall have independent discretion to select any issuer audits for inspection or investigation and the unfettered ability to
+Added: transfer information to the SEC.
+Added: On December 15, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it was able to secure complete access to inspect and
+Added: investigate PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong completely in 2022.
+Added: The PCAOB Board
+Added: vacated its previous 2021 determinations that the PCAOB was unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting
+Added: firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong.
+Added: However, whether the PCAOB will continue to be able to satisfactorily conduct inspections
+Added: of PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong is subject to uncertainty and depends on a
+Added: number of factors out of our, and our auditor’s control.
+Added: The PCAOB is continuing to demand complete access in China mainland and
+Added: Hong Kong moving forward and is already making plans to resume regular inspections in early 2023 and beyond, as well as to continue pursuing
+Added: ongoing investigations and initiate new investigations as needed.
+Added: The PCAOB has indicated that it will act immediately to consider the
+Added: need to issue new determinations with the HFCAA if needed.
+Added: Therefore, the PCAOB in the future may determine that it is unable to inspect
+Added: or investigate completely registered public accounting firms in mainland China and Hong Kong.
+Added: Our auditor’s working papers related
+Added: to us and our subsidiaries are located in China.
+Added: If our auditor is not permitted to provide requested audit work papers located in China
+Added: to the PCAOB, investors would be deprived of the benefits of PCAOB’s oversight of our auditor through such inspections which could
+Added: result in limitation or restriction to our access to the U.S.
+Added: capital markets and trading of our securities may be prohibited under the
+Added: HFCAA, which would result in the delisting of our securities from the Nasdaq.
+Added: See “ Risk Factors - Our common stock may be delisted
+Added: from the Nasdaq under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act if the PCAOB is unable to adequately inspect audit documentation
+Added: located in China.
+Added: The delisting of our common stock, or the threat of their being delisted, may materially and adversely affect the value
+Added: of your investment .”
We are currently exploring new business opportunities while continuing
−Removed: to provide freight logistics services, which include shipping and warehouse services.
−Removed: Special Committee Investigation
−Removed: On May 5, 2022, an entity
−Removed: named Hindenburg Research issued a report (the “Hindenburg Report”) regarding the Company alleging, among other things, that
−Removed: the Company’s then Chief Executive Officer, Yang Jie, was a fugitive on the run from Chinese authorities for running an alleged
−Removed: $300 million Ponzi scheme that lured in over 20,000 victims.
−Removed: The report also raised questions regarding the Company’s joint venture
−Removed: to produce crypto mining equipment announced in October 2021, as well as a $200 million order purportedly received by the joint venture
−Removed: in January 2022.
−Removed: Further, the report was critical of the Company’s April 2022 announcement of a $250 million partnership with an
−Removed: entity named Golden Mainland Inc.
−Removed: On May 6, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) formed a special committee
−Removed: of the Board (the “Special Committee”) to investigate claims of alleged fraud, misrepresentation, and inadequate disclosure
−Removed: related to the Company and certain of its management personnel raised in the Hindenburg Report and other related matters.
−Removed: Committee then retained Blank Rome LLP to serve as independent legal counsel and advise the Committee on the investigation.
−Removed: Committee completed the fact-finding portion of its investigation prior to December 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Special Committee’s preliminary
−Removed: findings corroborated certain of the allegations made in the Hindenburg Report and the investigation resulted in the termination and resignation
−Removed: of certain executive officers and directors of the Company, including but not limited to, the following:
−Removed: On August 9, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Jie tendered his resignation from his positions as Chief Executive Officer and director of the Company to the Board, following the Board’s
−Removed: decision on August 8, 2022, which adopted the Special Committee’s recommendation that Mr.
−Removed: Jie be suspended immediately, pending
−Removed: the Special Committee’s further investigation into allegations raised in the Hindenburg Report and other related matters.
−Removed: On August 16, 2022, attorneys
−Removed: from Blank Rome LLP, counsel for the Special Committee, held a conference call with staff members of the Securities and Exchange Commission
−Removed: (the“SEC”), during which counsel represented that Yang Jie had provided documentation to the SEC that indicated that the charges
−Removed: against him in China had been dropped, but the Special Committee’s investigation raised questions regarding the authenticity of
−Removed: such documents.
−Removed: The Special Committee concluded at that time that Mr.
−Removed: Jie was in fact issued a “Red Notice” in China.
−Removed: of remediating this issue, after being suspended by the Special Committee on August 8, 2022, Mr.
−Removed: Yang Jie resigned from his positions
−Removed: as Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company on August 9, 2022.
−Removed: In December 2022, the Company
−Removed: entered into cancellation agreement and a letter confirming the rescission of the grant of the shares with each of Yang Jie and Ms.
−Removed: Shan, our former Chief Operating Officer, pursuant to which Mr.
−Removed: Shan agreed to return 300,000 shares and 100,000 shares of
−Removed: our Common Stock, respectively, to the Company for cancellation at no cost.
−Removed: Such shares were previously issued to each of them for their
−Removed: services as officers of the Company.
−Removed: The shares were cancelled as of March 31, 2023.
−Removed: On February 10, 2023, in response
−Removed: to two, now-settled, lawsuits filed by private investors, Mr.
−Removed: Jie filed a motion to dismiss the private investors’ suits and provided
−Removed: a copy of a formal legal opinion issued by the Zhonglun W&D Law Firm, PRC.
−Removed: The Zhonglun W&D legal opinion concluded that Mr.
−Removed: was not charged with a crime in China, the investigation and underlying case had indeed been closed, and Mr.
−Removed: Jie was not formally treated
−Removed: as a criminal suspect in the PRC.
−Removed: In order to provide more clarity to the issues raised, the Company engaged Hebei Mei Dong Law Firm,
−Removed: of Shijiazhuang City, PRC to further investigate the authenticity of the documentation provided by Mr.
−Removed: Jie to the SEC and whether a “Red
−Removed: Notice” had been issued.
−Removed: On June 12, 2023, the Hebei Mei Dong Law Firm issued a report to the Company with respect to these issues.
−Removed: In their report, the Company’s Chinese counsel concluded after conferring with local officials, that the investigation of Mr.
−Removed: conducted by the Baohe District Police Bureau of Hefei City, PRC was completed, that Mr.
−Removed: Jie was never prosecuted and there was no criminal
−Removed: judgment against Mr.
−Removed: Jie as of the date of such report.
−Removed: The Chinese counsel also confirmed that no “Red Notice” was issued
−Removed: Jie in the PRC.
−Removed: On February 23, 2023, the
−Removed: Board approved the dissolution of the Special Committee upon conclusion of the committee’s investigation.
−Removed: On July 3, 2023, the Company
−Removed: entered into a Settlement and Release Agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Jie which fully resolved his claims against the Company.
−Removed: Executive Changes
−Removed: On June 16, 2022, Ms.
−Removed: Tuo Pan, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, without proper authorization by the Board, directed that funds be wired to satisfy
−Removed: an invoice for legal services that were rendered or to be rendered on her behalf.
−Removed: Pan was suspended by the Board for cause and
−Removed: without pay effective June 20, 2022.
−Removed: On August 31, 2022, Ms.
−Removed: Tuo Pan was terminated for cause as an employee of the Company and its
−Removed: subsidiaries and ceased to receive any salary or benefits from the Company since that date.
−Removed: On January 9, 2023, the Company
−Removed: entered into an Executive Separation Agreement and General Release (the “Separation Agreement”), with Lei Cao, an employee
−Removed: of the Company and a member of the Board, setting forth the terms and conditions related to the termination of Mr.
−Removed: Cao’s employment
−Removed: with the Company and the termination of the employment agreement dated as of November 1, 2021 as well as cancellation and/or termination
−Removed: of certain other agreements relating to Mr.
−Removed: Cao’s employment with the Company.
−Removed: The Separation Agreement also provided for Mr.
−Removed: resignation from the Board, effective as of January 9, 2023.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Separation
−Removed: Agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Cao submitted a letter of resignation from the Board on January 9, 2023.
−Removed: In addition, he agreed to forfeit and return to
−Removed: the Company the 600,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company granted to him in August 2021 under the terms of the 2014 Equity Incentive
−Removed: Plan of the Company (the “2021 Shares”).
−Removed: Cao also agreed to cooperate with the Company regarding certain investigations
−Removed: and proceedings and other matters arising out of or related to his relationship with or service to the Company.
−Removed: In consideration, the
−Removed: Company agreed to provide the following benefits to which Mr.
−Removed: Cao was not otherwise entitled:
−Removed: (1) payment of reasonable attorneys’
−Removed: fees and costs incurred by Mr.
−Removed: Cao through January 9, 2023 associated with Mr.
−Removed: Cao’s personal legal representation in matters relating
−Removed: Cao’s tenure with the Company, the investigations and proceedings and the negotiation and drafting of the Separation Agreement;
−Removed: (2) the release of claims in Mr.
−Removed: Cao’s favor contained in the Separation Agreement;
−Removed: and (3) payment of Mr.
−Removed: Cao’s reasonable
−Removed: and necessary legal fees to the extent incurred by Mr.
−Removed: Cao as a result of his cooperation as required by the Company under the terms of
−Removed: the Separation Agreement.
−Removed: Additionally, the Separation Agreement contains mutual general releases and waiver of claims from Mr.
−Removed: On January 17, 2023, Messrs.
−Removed: John Levy and Heng Wang were appointed as non-executive chairman and vice chairman of the Board, respectively.
−Removed: On February 23, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Levy resigned as a director and member of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee of the Board, effective
−Removed: On March 30, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Wang was appointed as non-executive Chairman of the Board to fill the vacancy created by Mr.
−Removed: On April 18, 2023, the Company
−Removed: entered into an employment agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Ziyuan Liu and appointed him as the chief executive officer of the Company, effective immediately,
−Removed: with a term of one year.
−Removed: On May 1, 2023, the Company
−Removed: entered into an employment agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Dianjiang Wang and appointed him as the chief financial officer of the Company, effective
−Removed: immediately, with a term of one year.
−Removed: On May 1, 2023, pursuant to
−Removed: the bylaws of the Company, our Board elected (i) Mr.
−Removed: Ziyuan Liu as a Class I director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders
+Added: to provide freight logistics services.
+Added: On September 19, 2023, the Company formed a 100% owned subsidiary, New Energy Tech Limited, .
+Added: Energy”) in New York for to engage in the commodity trading business .
+Added: In August 2024, New Energy entered into a joint venture development
+Added: agreement with Market One Services Corp., a Wyoming corporation, to establish a joint venture to carry out the commodity trading business.
+Added: The parties also plan to expand into the sale of solar panels
+Added: The Company decided to develop the solar panel business based on its
+Added: insight into the broad prospects of new energy.
+Added: In the decision-making process, the needs of environmental protection and market potential
+Added: were fully considered.
+Added: This new solar panel business complements our existing businesses and will expand the company’s sustainable
+Added: Committee Investigation
+Added: previously disclosed, on May 6, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) formed a special committee (the
+Added: “Special Committee”) to investigate claims of alleged fraud, misrepresentation, and inadequate disclosure related to the
+Added: Company and certain of its management personnel raised in a report, published by Hindenburg Research on May 4, 2022 (the “Hindenburg
+Added: On February 23, 2023, the Board approved the dissolution of the Special Committee upon conclusion of the committee’s
+Added: investigation.
+Added: On July 3, 2023, the Company entered into settlement and release agreement with Mr.
+Added: Yang Jie, the Company’s former
+Added: CEO, which fully resolved his claims against the Company.
+Added: July 3, 2023, Mr.
+Added: Tieliang Liu resigned as a director the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee, and
+Added: the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: July 10, 2023, Company terminated the employment of its Chief Operating Officer, Jing Shan, with cause.
+Added: The termination was effective
+Added: July 31, 2023, the Company elected Mr.
+Added: Zhongliang Xie as a Class II independent director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders
for the fiscal year 2023, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr.
−Removed: Jie, (ii) Mr.
−Removed: Haotian Song as a Class
−Removed: II director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders for the fiscal year 2023, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from
−Removed: the resignation of Mr.
−Removed: Cao, and (iii) Ms.
−Removed: Ling Jiang as a Class III independent director, Chairwoman of the Compensation Committee, a
−Removed: member of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to serve until the annual meeting of
−Removed: stockholders for the fiscal year 2024, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr.
−Removed: On May 2, 2023, the Board
−Removed: Ziyuan Liu as the new chairman of the Board.
−Removed: On July 3, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Liu resigned as a director the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee, and the Nominating and Corporate
−Removed: Governance Committee.
−Removed: On July 10, 2023, Company
−Removed: terminated the employment of its Chief Operating Officer, Jing Shan, with cause.
−Removed: The termination was effective immediately.
−Removed: On July 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company elected Mr.
−Removed: Zhongliang Xie as a Class II independent director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders for the
−Removed: fiscal year 2023, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr.
Tieliang Liu.
The Board appointed Mr.
−Removed: to serve as Chair of the Audit Committee, a member of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate
−Removed: Governance Committee.
−Removed: On September 21, 2023, Mr.
−Removed: Heng Wang resigned
−Removed: as a director of the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee, and the Nominating and Corporate Governance
−Removed: 25, 2023, the Company elected Mr.
−Removed: Xu Zhao as a Class I independent director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders for the
−Removed: fiscal year 2022, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr.
+Added: Xie to serve as Chair of the Audit Committee, a member of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance
+Added: September 21, 2023, Mr.
+Added: Heng Wang resigned as a director of the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee,
+Added: and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: September 25, 2023, the Company elected Mr.
+Added: Xu Zhao as a Class I independent director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders
+Added: for the fiscal year 2022, to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Mr.
The Board appointed Mr.
−Removed: Zhao to serve
−Removed: as a member of the Audit Committee, a member of the Compensation Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
−Removed: 28, 2023, Ms.
−Removed: Ling Jiang resigned as a director of the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee, and the
−Removed: Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
−Removed: On October 3, 2021, the Company
−Removed: entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement with HighSharp (Shenzhen Gaorui) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“HighSharp”)
−Removed: to establish a joint venture for collaborative engineering, technical development and commercialization of a bitcoin mining machine under
−Removed: the name Thor Miner Inc.
−Removed: (“Thor Minor”) , granting Thor Miner exclusive rights covering design production, intellectual property,
−Removed: branding, marketing and sales.
−Removed: On October 11, 2021, Thor Miner was formed in Delaware and is 51% owned by the Company and 49% owned
−Removed: by HighSharp.
−Removed: SOS Information Technology
−Removed: New York, Inc.
−Removed: (“SOSNY”), a company incorporated under the laws of state of New York and a wholly owned subsidiary of SOS
−Removed: (a NYSE listed holding company, which provides marketing data, technology and solutions to the emergency rescue services in China,
−Removed: filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court on December 9, 2022 against Thor Miner ( together with the Company, referred to as
−Removed: the “Corporate Defendants”), Lei Cao, Yang Jie, John F.
−Removed: Levy, Tieliang Liu, Tuo Pan, Shi Qiu, Jing Shan, and Heng Wang (jointly
−Removed: referred to as the “Individual Defendants”) (collectively, the Individual Defendants and the Corporate Defendants are the
−Removed: “Defendants”).
−Removed: SOSNY and Thor Miner entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement dated January 10, 2022 (the “PSA”)
−Removed: for the purchase of $200,000,000 in crypto mining rigs, which SOSNY claims was breached by the Defendants.
−Removed: SOSNY and Defendants entered
−Removed: into a certain settlement agreement and general mutual release with an Effective Date of December 28, 2022 (the “Settlement Agreement”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, Thor Miner agreed to pay $13,000,000 (the “Settlement Payment”) to SOSNY in exchange
−Removed: for SOSNY dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice as to the settling Defendants and without prejudice as to all others.
−Removed: The full Settlement
−Removed: Payment was made in December 2022 and SOSNY dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice against us and the other Defendants on December 28, 2022.
−Removed: The Company and Thor Miner
−Removed: further covenanted and agreed that if they receive additional funds from HighSharp related to the PSA, they will promptly transfer such
−Removed: funds to SOSNY in an amount not to exceed $40,560,569 (which is the total amount paid by SOSNY pursuant to the PSA less the price of the
−Removed: machines actually received by SOSNY pursuant to the PSA).
−Removed: The Settlement Payment and any payments subsequently received by SOSNY from
−Removed: HighSharp will be deducted from the total amount of $40,560,569 previously paid by, and now due and owing to SOSNY.
−Removed: In further consideration
−Removed: of the Settlement Agreement, Thor Miner provided SOSNY an assignment of all claims it may have against HighSharp or otherwise to the proceeds
−Removed: On September 23, 2022, Hexin
−Removed: Global Limited and Viner Total Investments Fund filed a lawsuit against the Company and other defendants in the United States District
−Removed: Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Hexin lawsuit”).
−Removed: On December 5, 2022, St.
−Removed: Hudson Group LLC, Imperii Strategies
−Removed: LLC, Isyled Technology Limited, and Hsqynm Family Inc.
−Removed: filed a lawsuit against the Company and other defendants in the United States District
−Removed: Court for the Southern District of New York (the “St.
−Removed: Hudson lawsuit,” and together with the Hexin lawsuit, the “Investor
−Removed: The plaintiffs in the Investor Actions are investors that entered into a securities purchase agreement with the Company
−Removed: in December 2021 as more fully described below.
−Removed: Each of these plaintiffs asserted causes of action for, among other things, violations
−Removed: of the federal securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent inducement, breach of contract, conversion, and unjust enrichment,
−Removed: and seeks monetary damages and specific performance to remove legends from certain securities sold pursuant to the Securities Purchase
−Removed: The Hexin lawsuit claimed monetary damages of “at least $6 million,” plus interest, costs, fees, and attorneys’
−Removed: Hudson lawsuit claimed monetary damages of “at least $4.4 million,” plus interest, costs, fees, and attorneys’
−Removed: On October 6, 2022, Jinhe
−Removed: Capital Limited (“Jinhe”) filed a lawsuit against the Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District
−Removed: of New York, asserting causes of actions for, among other things, breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing,
−Removed: conversion, quantum meruit, and unjust enrichment, in connection with a financial advisory agreement entered into by and between Jinhe
−Removed: and the Company on November 10, 2021.
−Removed: Jinhe claimed monetary damages of “at least $575,000” and “potentially exceeding
−Removed: $1.8 million,” plus interest, costs, and attorneys’ fees.
−Removed: January 10, 2023, the St.
−Removed: Hudson lawsuit was consolidated with the Jinhe lawsuit and Hexin lawsuit and on February 24, 2023, all
−Removed: three consolidated actions were dismissed without prejudice by the court, in furtherance of the parties having reached an agreement
−Removed: in principle to settle their disputes.
−Removed: The Company, Yang Jie, Jing Shan, and the plaintiffs in the three actions entered into a
−Removed: certain settlement agreement and general mutual release with an effective date of March 10, 2023, pursuant to which the Company
−Removed: agreed to pay the plaintiffs $10,525,910.82.
−Removed: The plaintiffs agreed to discharge and forever release the defendants from all
−Removed: claims that were or could have been raised in those actions, as well as dismissal of each of the actions with prejudice.
−Removed: has no role or knowledge as to how the settlement payment will be allocated between and among the plaintiffs.
−Removed: The Company made the
−Removed: settlement payment on March 14, 2023.
−Removed: The plaintiffs agreed to irrevocably forfeit 3,728,807 shares of Common Stock they hold.
−Removed: cancellation of these shares has been completed.
−Removed: value of the shares was $2,125,420 on March 10, 2023, the settlement amount over the fair value of the cancelled shares was recorded as other expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations.
−Removed: On December 9, 2022, Piero
−Removed: Crivellaro, purportedly on behalf of the persons or entities who purchased or acquired publicly traded securities of the Company between
−Removed: February 2021 and November 2022, filed a putative class action against the Company and other defendants in the United States District
−Removed: Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleging violations of federal securities laws related to alleged false or misleading disclosures
−Removed: made by the Company in its public filings.
−Removed: The plaintiff seeks unspecified damages, plus interest, costs, fees, and attorneys’ fees.
−Removed: On February 7, 2023, two additional plaintiffs moved to be appointed as the lead class plaintiff in this action;
−Removed: those motions remain
−Removed: under the Court’s consideration.
−Removed: As this action is still in the early stage, the Company cannot predict the outcome.
−Removed: In addition to the above litigations,
−Removed: the Company is also subject to additional contractual litigations as to which it is unable to estimate the outcome.
−Removed: Government Investigations
−Removed: Following a publication of
−Removed: the Hindenburg Report, the Company received subpoenas from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New
−Removed: York and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: The Company is cooperating with these governmental authorities regarding
−Removed: these matters.
+Added: to serve as a member of the Audit Committee, a member of the Compensation Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance
+Added: September 28, 2023, Ms.
+Added: Ling Jiang resigned as a director of the Company and a member of the Compensation Committee, the Audit Committee,
+Added: and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: October 6, 2023, the Company elected Ms.
+Added: Yangyang Xu as a Class III independent director to serve until the annual meeting of stockholders
+Added: for the fiscal year 2024, to fill the vacancy resulting from the resignation of Ms.
+Added: The Board appointed Ms.
+Added: Xu to serve as
+Added: Chairwoman of the Compensation Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
+Added: July 31, 2024, Mr.
+Added: Haotian Song resigned from his position as a vice president of the Company and as a director of the Board.
+Added: August 6, 2024, the Company appointed Ms.
+Added: Jia Yang as a vice president of the Company and as a director of the Board to fill the vacancy
+Added: resulting from Mr.
+Added: Haotian Song’s resignation.
+Added: December 9, 2022, Piero Crivellaro, purportedly on behalf of the persons or entities who purchased or acquired publicly traded securities
+Added: of the Company between February 2021 and November 2022, filed a putative class action against the Company and other defendants in the
+Added: United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (“EDNY”), alleging violations of federal securities laws
+Added: related to alleged false or misleading disclosures made by the Company in its public filings (the “SGLY Securities Class Action”).
+Added: The plaintiff seeks damages, plus interest, costs, fees, and attorneys’ fees.
+Added: The Company filed a motion to dismiss on November
+Added: 20, 2023, which is fully-briefed and awaiting the Court’s determination.
+Added: As this action is still in the early stage, the Company
+Added: cannot predict the outcome.
+Added: July 13, 2023, SG Shipping & Risk Solution Inc.
+Added: (“SG Shipping”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company,
+Added: filed a complaint against Jing Shan, its former chief operating officer, accusing her of the unauthorized wire transfer of $3 million
+Added: to Goalowen (the “Conversion Lawsuit”).
+Added: On March 23, 2023, Jing Shan allegedly signed, without Board’s due authorization,
+Added: an operating income right transfer contract with Goalowen Inc., pursuant to which Goalowen agreed to transfer its rights to receive income
+Added: from operating a tuna fishing vessel to SG Shipping for $3 million.
+Added: Shan alleged made the unauthorized wire transfer of $3 million
+Added: to Goalowen on May 5, 2023.
+Added: This lawsuit is filed with the EDNY.
+Added: Shan moved to dismiss the case on March 19, 2024 and the decision
+Added: is currently pending with the court.
+Added: Fact discovery is currently underway.
+Added: The Company remains committed to pursuing its claims and seeks
+Added: August 23, 2023, Jing Shan commenced a lawsuit against the Company in the Richmond City Circuit Court of Virginia for unpaid salaries
+Added: and indemnification of her litigation costs defending herself in the SGLY Securities Class Action and the Conversion Lawsuit.
+Added: entered an order on May 3, 2024, granted Jing Shan’s request for payment of withheld wages through the time of her termination,
+Added: plus liquidated damages, and litigation costs in prosecuting the withheld wages.
+Added: The court denied Jing Shan’s motion for expenses
+Added: incurred in other ligation, deferring those issues to resolution by trial.
+Added: The Company has paid the past due wages and statutory liquidated
+Added: Jing Shan filed a motion for rule to show cause on July 29, 2024, demanding payment of attorney’s fees of $36,523.21,
+Added: plus sanctions by the court for the Company’s failure to comply with the court’s order of payment.
+Added: October 23, 2023, the Company filed a complaint against its former CFO, Tuo Pan, accusing her of conversion due to her alleged involvement
+Added: in two unauthorized transfers from the Company, amounting to $219,000 and $7,920, respectively.
+Added: The Company decided not to pursue this
+Added: matter any further and withdrew the complaint.
+Added: January 18, 2024, John Levy, a former board member of the Company, filed a claim in the EDNY for reimbursement and advancement of reasonable
+Added: legal fees, costs, and expenses incurred in connection with defending the action Crivellaro v.
+Added: Singularity Future Technology Ltd.
+Added: 22-cv-7499-BMC, in which John Levy was named as an individual defendant.
+Added: On a letter dated August 6, 2024, John Levy notified the court
+Added: that it would move for default judgement.
+Added: The Company does not intend to defend its position.
+Added: February 2024, Zhikang Huang, a former employee of the Company filed a lawsuit against the Company in the Richmond City Circuit Court
+Added: In the complaint, Zhikang Huang alleges claims that the Company failed to compensate him for the severance payment of $300,000
+Added: contemplated in Section 6.3 of the Employee Agreement, his two months’ salary of $25,000 for the months of November and December
+Added: 2023 and the incentive-based bonus to which he is entitled pursuant to paragraph 4.2 of the Employee Agreement.
+Added: A hearing on plaintiff’s
+Added: motion to compel discovery was scheduled on August 26, 2024.
+Added: The Company intends to defend its position.
+Added: Investigations
+Added: the publication of the Hindenburg Report, the Company received subpoenas from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern
+Added: District of New York and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
+Added: The Company cooperated with these
+Added: governmental authorities regarding these matters.
The Company is not able to estimate the outcome or duration of the government investigations.
−Removed: Nasdaq Listing Deficiencies
−Removed: On May 24, 2022, the Company
−Removed: received a delinquency notice from Nasdaq indicating that the Company was not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) due to
−Removed: its delay in filing its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Company was provided 60 days to submit
−Removed: a plan to regain compliance.
−Removed: On July 25, 2022 and September 14, 2022, the Company submitted its plan to regain compliance and supplementary
−Removed: information related to the plan, respectively (collectively, the “Compliance Plan”).
−Removed: Based on the review of the Compliance
−Removed: Plan as well as telephone conversations with outside counsel to the Company and counsel to the Company’s Special Committee, the
−Removed: Staff has determined that the Company did not provide a definitive plan evidencing its ability to file the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
−Removed: for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 (collectively, the “Reports”)
−Removed: within the 180 calendar day period available to the Staff under the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: On November 16, 2022, the
−Removed: Company received an additional staff determination notice from Nasdaq, advising that it had not received the Company’s Form 10-Q
−Removed: for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022, which served as an additional basis for delisting the Company’s securities and
−Removed: that the Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the “Panel”) will consider the additional deficiency in rendering a determination regarding
−Removed: the Company’s continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: The Company submitted to the Panel a plan to regain compliance with
−Removed: the continued listing requirements, including the filing of the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022.
−Removed: On January 5, 2023, the Company
−Removed: received a deficiency notice from Nasdaq informing the Company that its common stock, no par value, fails to comply with the $1 minimum
−Removed: bid price required for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) based upon the closing bid
−Removed: price of the common stock for the 30 consecutive business days prior to the date of the notice from Nasdaq.
−Removed: The Company has been provided
−Removed: an initial compliance period of 180 calendar days, or until July 5, 2023, to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement.
−Removed: On February 21, 2023, the
−Removed: Company received an additional staff determination notice from Nasdaq, advising that it had not received the Company’s Form 10-Q
−Removed: for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2022, which served as an additional basis for delisting the Company’s securities.
−Removed: notice stated that the Nasdaq Hearings Panel will consider the additional deficiency in rendering a determination regarding the Company’s
−Removed: continued listing on Nasdaq.
−Removed: The Company submitted to the Panel a plan to regain compliance with the continued listing requirements and
−Removed: was granted a grace period to file all the delinquent reports, including the filing of the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December
−Removed: 31, 2022, on or before February 28, 2023.
−Removed: March 8, 2023, the Company received a notice from Nasdaq stating that the Company no longer complies with Nasdaq’s audit committee
−Removed: requirement under Nasdaq’s Listing Rule 5605 following the resignation of John Levy from the Company’s board of directors
−Removed: and audit committee effective February 23, 2023.
−Removed: Nasdaq advised the Company that in accordance with Nasdaq’s Listing Rule 5605(c)(4),
−Removed: the Company has a cure period to regain compliance (i) until the earlier of the Company’s next annual shareholders’ meeting
−Removed: or February 23, 2024;
−Removed: or (ii) if the next annual shareholders’ meeting is held before August 22, 2023, then the Company must evidence
−Removed: compliance no later than August 22, 2023.
−Removed: The Company has set the record date of September 28, 2023, for an annual meeting of shareholders
−Removed: scheduled to take place on October 13, 2023.
−Removed: March 16, 2023, the Company received a formal notification from Nasdaq confirming that the Company had regained compliance with the Nasdaq
−Removed: Listing Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires the Company to timely file all required periodic financial reports with the SEC, and that the
−Removed: matter is now closed.
−Removed: July 7, 2023, the Company received an Notice of Noncompliance Letter (the “Letter”) from Nasdaq stating that the Company was
−Removed: not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rules due to its failure to timely hold an annual meeting of shareholders for the fiscal year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2022, which is required to be held within twelve months of the Company’s fiscal year end under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5620(a)
−Removed: and 5810(c)(2)(G).
−Removed: The Letter also states that the Company has 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain compliance and if Nasdaq accepts
−Removed: the Plan, it can grant the Company an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the fiscal year end, or until December 27, 2023, to regain
−Removed: The Company complied with the Nasdaq requirement that the Plan be submitted no later than August 21, 2023.
−Removed: July 13, 2023, the Company received a notice from Nasdaq stating that the Company no longer complies with Nasdaq’s independent director
−Removed: and audit committee requirements under Nasdaq’s Listing Rule 5605 following the resignation of Mr.
+Added: As of the date of this report, the Company has not received any updates.
+Added: February 28, 2023 , the audit committee of the Company, after discussion with the management of the Company, and in consultation with
+Added: the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, concluded that the Company’s previously issued financial statements
+Added: for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on November 29,
+Added: 2021 (the “2021 Form 10-K”) should no longer be relied upon as a result of incorrect accounting treatment of approximately
+Added: $4.6 million of related party loan receivable.
+Added: The audit committee also concluded that the financial statements for the quarters
+Added: ended September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2021 included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q (the “2021 Form 10-Qs,”
+Added: collectively with the 2021 Form 10-K, the “Affected Reports”), filed with the SEC on November 12, 2021 and February 14, 2022,
+Added: respectively, should no longer be relied upon as a result of incorrect recognition of revenue from freight shipping services in the amount
+Added: of $980,200 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and six months ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The Company corrected the errors referenced
+Added: above in an amendment to (1) the 2021 Form 10-K (the “Amended Form 10-K”) and (2) each of the 2021 Form 10-Qs (the “Amended
+Added: Form 10-Qs,” collectively with the Amended Form 10-K, the “Restatements”).
+Added: June 17, 2024, the Company received a subpoena from the SEC requesting the production of certain documents related to an investigation
+Added: by the SEC regarding the Restatements (the “Investigation”).
+Added: Because the Investigation is at an early stage, the Company
+Added: cannot predict its outcome, duration, or any potential consequences at this time.
+Added: The SEC has not advised the Company that it has concluded
+Added: any legal violation has occurred, but any Investigation potentially could result in government enforcement actions and, to civil and/or
+Added: criminal sanctions under relevant laws.
+Added: The Company intends to cooperate with the SEC with respect to the Investigation.
+Added: Listing Deficiencies
+Added: July 7, 2023, the Company received an Notice of Noncompliance Letter (the “Letter”) from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”)
+Added: stating that the Company was not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rules due to its failure to timely hold an annual meeting of shareholders
+Added: for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, which is required to be held within twelve months of the Company’s fiscal year end under
+Added: Nasdaq Listing Rule 5620(a) and 5810(c)(2)(G).
+Added: The Letter also states that the Company has 45 calendar days to submit a plan to regain
+Added: compliance and if Nasdaq accepts the Plan, it can grant the Company an exception of up to 180 calendar days from the fiscal year end,
+Added: or until December 27, 2023, to regain compliance.
+Added: The Company complied with the Nasdaq requirement that the Plan be submitted no later
+Added: than August 21, 2023.
+Added: On October 19, 2023, the Company received a formal notification from the Nasdaq confirming that the Company had
+Added: regained compliance with Listing Rule 5620(a), and that the matter is now closed.
+Added: July 13, 2023, the Company received a notice from Nasdaq stating that the Company no longer complies with Nasdaq’s independent
+Added: director and audit committee requirements under Nasdaq’s Listing Rule 5605 following the resignation of Mr.
Liu from the Company’s
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meeting or July 3, 2024;
−Removed: or (2) if the next annual shareholders’ meeting is held before January 2, 2024, then the Company must evidence
−Removed: compliance no later than January 2, 2024.
+Added: or (2) if the next annual shareholders’ meeting is held before January 2, 2024, then the Company must
+Added: evidence compliance no later than January 2, 2024.
In response to this notice, on July 31, 2023, the Company elected Mr.
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July 13, 2023, the Company received a notice from Nasdaq stating that the Company failed to regain compliance with respect to the minimum
−Removed: $1 bid price per share requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rules during the 180 calendar days given by Nasdaq for the Company to regain compliance,
−Removed: which ended on July 5, 2023.
−Removed: However, Nasdaq has determined that the Company is eligible for an additional 180 calendar day period, or
−Removed: until January 2, 2024, to regain compliance.
−Removed: Such determination is based on the Company meeting the continued listing requirement for
−Removed: market value of publicly held shares and all other applicable requirements for initial listing on the Capital Market with the exception
−Removed: of the bid price requirement, and the Company’s written notice of its intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance
−Removed: period by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary.
−Removed: The Company intends to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s bid price requirement
−Removed: prior to the end of the second bid price extension.
−Removed: Corporate History and Our Business Segments
−Removed: From inception in 2001 to
−Removed: our fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, our sole business was providing shipping agency services.
−Removed: In general, we provided two types of shipping
−Removed: agency services:
−Removed: loading/discharging services and protective agency services, in which we acted as a general agent to provide value added
−Removed: solutions to our customers.
−Removed: For loading/discharging agency services, we received the total payment from our customers in U.S.
−Removed: and paid the port charges on behalf of our customers in RMB.
−Removed: For protective agency services, we charged a fixed amount as agent fee while
−Removed: customers were responsible for the payment of port costs and expenses.
−Removed: In January 2016, we expanded
−Removed: our business to include freight logistics services to provide import security filing services with the U.S.
−Removed: Customs and Department of
−Removed: Homeland Security, on behalf of importers who ship goods into the U.S.
+Added: $1 bid price per share requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rules during the 180 calendar days given by Nasdaq for the Company to regain
+Added: compliance, which ended on July 5, 2023.
+Added: However, Nasdaq has determined that the Company is eligible for an additional 180 calendar day
+Added: period, or until January 2, 2024, to regain compliance.
+Added: On January 3, 2024, the Company received a notification from Nasdaq, notifying
+Added: the Company of the determination to delist the Company’s securities from Nasdaq because of the Company’s failure to regain
+Added: compliance with the $1 per share bid price requirement required for continued listing on the Nasdaq as set forth in Listing Rule 5550(a)(2).
+Added: On March 12, 2024, the Company received a formal notification from Nasdaq confirming that the Company had regained compliance with bid
+Added: price requirement required for continued listing on the Nasdaq as set forth in Listing Rule 5550(a)(2).
+Added: History and Our Business Segments
+Added: inception in 2001 to our fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, our sole business was providing shipping agency services.
+Added: In general, we provided
+Added: two types of shipping agency services:
+Added: loading/discharging services and protective agency services, in which we acted as a general agent
+Added: to provide value added solutions to our customers.
+Added: For loading/discharging agency services, we received the total payment from our customers
+Added: dollars and paid the port charges on behalf of our customers in RMB.
+Added: For protective agency services, we charged a fixed amount
+Added: as agent fee while customers were responsible for the payment of port costs and expenses.
+Added: we expanded our business to include freight logistics services to provide import security filing services with the U.S.
+Added: Customs and Department
+Added: of Homeland Security, on behalf of importers who ship goods into the U.S.
and also provided inland transportation services to these importers
−Removed: In the fiscal year ended June
We also expanded into container trucking services as new business sectors to provide related transportation logistics services
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and in China.
−Removed: In an effort to further diversify
−Removed: our business, in the second quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, we developed our bulk cargo container services segment.
−Removed: cargo container shipment refers to using containers to ship commodities that are traditionally shipped by freight cargo.
−Removed: Freight cargo
−Removed: rates are usually lower than container freight rates;
−Removed: however, the transit time is much longer and has high minimum quantity requirements.
−Removed: We suspended this service in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 due to market environment factors, and discontinued this service in light
−Removed: of the worldwide impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
−Removed: In the fiscal year ended June
−Removed: 30, 2018, we established a wholly owned subsidiary, Ningbo Saimeinuo Web Technology Ltd.
−Removed: (“Ningbo”), which is 100% owned by
−Removed: Sino-Global Shipping New York Inc.
−Removed: (“SG Shipping NY”), a New York corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company,
−Removed: which primarily engages in transportation management and freight logistics services, including overseas shipping.
−Removed: Since the fiscal year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2019, trade dynamics have made it more expensive for shipping carrier clients to cost-effectively move cargo into U.S.
−Removed: and as a result, we realized lower shipping volumes, which has caused us to shift our focus back to the shipping agency business.
−Removed: January 10, 2020, we entered into a cooperation agreement with Mr.
−Removed: Shanming Liang, a stockholder of the Company, to establish a joint
−Removed: venture named LSM Trading Ltd., in which the Company holds a 40% equity interest.
−Removed: For the year ended June 30, 2023, the Company invested
−Removed: $210,000 in the joint venture.
−Removed: The joint venture has not commenced operations as of the date of this report.
−Removed: On December 14, 2020, we incorporated
−Removed: a new entity named Blumargo IT Solution Ltd.
−Removed: (“Blumargo”) in the U.S.
−Removed: SG Shipping NY held an 80% ownership interest in Blumargo,
−Removed: which was established in partnership with Tianjin Anboweiye Technology Co.
−Removed: (“Tianjin”), to build up hi-tech and information-based
−Removed: logistics services to meet customer demand.
−Removed: On June 30, 2022, SG Shipping NY acquired the 20% interest held from Tianjin and increased
−Removed: its ownership to 100%.
−Removed: March to June 2021, the Company engaged in cryptocurrency mining in China.
−Removed: On March 2, 2021, the Company entered into a purchase agreement
−Removed: with Hebei Yanghuai Technology Co., Ltd.
−Removed: (“Yanghuai”) for the purchase of 2,783 digital currency mining machines for a total
−Removed: purchase price of RMB 30 million ( approximately $4.6 million).
−Removed: Yanghuai agreed
−Removed: to manage and operate the servers after the purchase at its site with no further charge from March 10, 2021 to March 9, 2022, after which
−Removed: time the Company could engage Yanghuai to continue providing services for a fee.
−Removed: The first cash payment of approximately $0.9 million
−Removed: was paid within 15 days after the date of signing the Agreement.
−Removed: the last two months of the Company’s 2021 fiscal year, national and local governments in China started to restrict and ban
−Removed: cryptocurrency mining operations, causing owners of mining machines to cease mining operations.
−Removed: Based on the amended agreement
−Removed: signed by the Company and Yanghuai on September 17, 2021, the Company is not liable to perform under the remainder of the contract
−Removed: and obtained title to half of the servers.
−Removed: The Company recorded an impairment for the mining equipment in the last quarter of 2021
−Removed: in the amount of approximately $0.9 million.
−Removed: The two parties have restructured the Purchase Agreement to reduce the
−Removed: purchase price from RMB 30 million to RMB 6 million and to allocate the purchased servers between the Company and the Seller.
−Removed: Seller transported servers representing half of the agreed 50,440 terahashes (one trillion) per second (th/s) in computing power (or
−Removed: a total of 25,220 th/s in computing power) to our Ningbo subsidiary in China and then shipped them to us in the U.S.
−Removed: On April 21, 2021, the Company
−Removed: set up a joint venture in Texas, U.S.
−Removed: under the name of “Brilliant Warehouse Service Inc.” to support its freight logistics
−Removed: services in the U.S., pursuant to a cooperation agreement with Mr.
−Removed: SG Shipping NY has a 51% equity interest in the joint venture.
−Removed: In July 2021, the Company
−Removed: registered a new company, Gorgeous Trading Ltd.
−Removed: (“Gorgeous Trading”), which is 100% owned by SG Shipping NY.
−Removed: Gorgeous Trading
−Removed: is mainly engaged in smart warehouse and related business in Texas.
−Removed: On August 31, 2021, the
−Removed: Company formed a joint venture, Phi Electric Motor, Inc.
−Removed: in New York, which is 51% owned by SG Shipping NY.
−Removed: Phi Electric Motor, Inc.has
−Removed: had no operations as of the date of this report.
−Removed: On September 29, 2021, the
−Removed: Company formed a 100% owned subsidiary, SG Shipping & Risk Solution Inc., in New York.
−Removed: On December 23, 2021, SG Shipping & Risk
−Removed: Solution Inc.
−Removed: formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, SG Link LLC, in New York.
−Removed: As of the date of this report, the two companies have had no
−Removed: On October 3, 2021, the
−Removed: Company entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement with HighSharp to establish a Delaware joint venture for collaborative
−Removed: engineering, technical development and commercialization of a bitcoin mining machine under the name Thor Miner Inc.
−Removed: owned by the Company and 49% owned by HighSharp.
−Removed: Thor Miner was given exclusive rights covering design production, intellectual
−Removed: property, branding, marketing and sales.
−Removed: On October 11, 2021,
−Removed: On December 31, 2021, the
−Removed: Company entered into a series of agreements to terminate its variable interest entity (“VIE”) structure and deconsolidated
−Removed: its formerly controlled entity Sino-Global Shipping Agency Ltd.
+Added: We shift our focus back to the shipping agency business around 2019.
+Added: 2021, the Company set up a joint venture in Texas, Brilliant Warehouse Service Inc., to support its freight logistics services in the
+Added: U.S., and a new subsidiary, Gorgeous Trading Ltd., which mainly engages in smart warehouse and related business in Texas.
+Added: December 31, 2021, the Company terminated its variable interest entity (“VIE”) structure and deconsolidated its formerly
+Added: controlled entity Sino-Global Shipping Agency Ltd.
(“Sino-China”).
−Removed: The Company controlled Sino-China through
−Removed: its wholly owned subsidiary Trans Pacific Shipping Limited.
−Removed: The Company made the decision to dissolve the VIE structure and Sino-China
−Removed: because Sino-China has no active operations and the Company wanted to remove any potential risks associated with any VIE structures.
−Removed: addition, the Company dissolved its subsidiary Sino-Global Shipping LA, Inc.
−Removed: On April 10, 2022, the Company
−Removed: entered into a joint venture agreement with Golden Mainland Inc., a Georgia corporation (“Golden Mainland”) to establish a
−Removed: joint venture to build Bitcoin mining sites in Texas, Ohio, and other states.
−Removed: The Company does not plan to pursue this business with
−Removed: Golden Mainland.
−Removed: Our strategy is to:
+Added: The Company controlled Sino-China through its wholly owned
+Added: subsidiary Trans Pacific Shipping Limited.
+Added: The Company dissolved the VIE structure, Sino-China and its subsidiary Sino-Global Shipping
+Added: 2021 to 2022, the Company engaged in cryptocurrency mining in China for a brief period of time but ceased such business in 2022 due to
+Added: restrictions and bans on crypto mining operations in China.
+Added: Thor Miner Inc., a Delaware subsidiary of the Company that engaged in technical
+Added: development and commercialization of a bitcoin mining machine, was dissolved on February 14, 2024.
+Added: The Company does not plan to
+Added: pursue bitcoin mining business at this moment.
+Added: following subsidiaries or joint ventures have no operations as of the date of this report:
+Added: LSM Trading Ltd., Singularity (Shenzhen) Technology
+Added: Ltd., Phi Electric Motor, Inc.
+Added: in New York, SG Shipping & Risk Solution Inc., in New York and SG Link LLC in New York.
+Added: subsidiary, Ningbo Saimeinuo Web Technology Ltd., which primarily engaged in transportation management and freight logistics services,
+Added: including overseas shipping, was dissolved on October 24, 2023.
+Added: Our subsidiary, Blumargo IT Solution Ltd., was dissolved on April 17,
+Added: On September 19, 2023, the Company formed a 100% owned subsidiary,
+Added: New Energy Tech Limited.
+Added: (“New Energy”) in New York to engage in the commodity trading business .
+Added: In August 2024, New Energy
+Added: entered into a joint venture development agreement with Market One Services Corp., a Wyoming corporation, to establish a joint venture
+Added: to carry out the commodity trading business.
+Added: The parties also plan to expand into the sale of solar panels.
+Added: strategy is to:
better solutions for issues and challenges faced by the entire shipping and freight logistics chain to better serve our customers and
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to monetize our relationships with our strategic partners and leverage their support and our innovation to expand our business;
−Removed: With the establishment of
−Removed: our subsidiary in Los Angeles, we added cargo forwarding services to our service platform in the second quarter of fiscal 2017, which
−Removed: is included in our inland transportation business line for the year ended June 30, 2016.
−Removed: As we are developing our cargo forwarding services,
−Removed: the Company provides freight logistics services and container trucking services as two new business segments in fiscal 2017.
−Removed: During fiscal
−Removed: year 2018, the Company began to provide bulk cargo container services to the customers.
−Removed: On November 13, 2019, the Company entered into
−Removed: a cooperation agreement with Shanming Liang, a director of Guangxi Jinqiao Industrial Group Co., Ltd., to cooperate and expand the bulk
−Removed: cargo container services business.
−Removed: Our Goals and Strategic Plan
−Removed: By leveraging our extensive
−Removed: business relationships, technical ability and in-depth knowledge of the shipping industry, our goal is to further strengthen our position
−Removed: as a leading global logistics solution provider who offers innovative resolutions to better address complex issues in different aspects
−Removed: in the entire shipping and freight logistics chain.
−Removed: We historically focused our
−Removed: business on providing our customers with customized shipping agency services.
−Removed: In the past, our business came predominately from our strong
−Removed: business relationships with our key strategic partners in China.
−Removed: To reduce our dependency on a single business line, we have leveraged,
−Removed: and will continue to leverage, our business relationships with strategic partners to introduce new service offerings to the market and
−Removed: to diversify our business.
−Removed: Our strategic plan for the next five years is to continue to diversify our service mix and actively seek new
−Removed: growth opportunities to expand our business footprint in the U.S.
−Removed: market to reduce our dependency on the revenue generated from China.
−Removed: For decades, the shipping industry has been operated under traditional business models without many meaningful changes.
−Removed: Today, technological
−Removed: innovation has already played a big role in changing every conventional industry.
−Removed: We believe the internet will be a big part of the future
−Removed: logistics chain services and a transformative era in shipping and freight logistics business is coming.
−Removed: As an innovative solution provider,
−Removed: we plan to apply our technical ability, industry expertise and cutting-edge information technology in the conventional shipping business
−Removed: to better connect supply and demand and to develop seamless linkages in logistics chains.
−Removed: As a result of our plan to
−Removed: diversify, we continued to provide on inland transportation management services and logistics between the U.S.
−Removed: and China, such as providing
−Removed: freight logistics services, container trucking services and bulk cargo container services.
−Removed: During this process, we will continue to adjust
−Removed: and develop our strategic plans based on the change of business environment.
−Removed: However, with our decades
−Removed: of experience in shipping agency business and solid business relationships with Baosteel Group and Shougang Group, who are among the biggest
−Removed: importers of iron ore in China, we believe it is to the Company’s best interest to redirect our focus on this segment in 2019 based
−Removed: on our assessment of current global trading environments.
−Removed: To our understanding, we are one of few shipping agents specialized in providing
−Removed: a full range of general shipping agency services in China and the only shipping agency company listed on a public exchange in the U.S.
−Removed: while other shipping agencies are much smaller and more fragmented.
−Removed: With the setup of the Ningbo joint venture, we are able to use our
−Removed: resources such as our customer base, our currently developing IT infrastructure and our business insight to build a global network of
−Removed: shipping agencies.
−Removed: In addition, our current business segments like freight logistics and container trucking can also be integrated and
−Removed: enable us to provide more comprehensive logistics services for our customers.
−Removed: Our plan is to develop a
−Removed: shipping agency network in China and South East Asia for the next three years and expand our shipping agency network worldwide.
−Removed: to build the network through acquisitions or strategic partnership with other shipping agencies.
−Removed: Our shipping agency business will be
−Removed: mostly conducted through our China, Hong Kong and Australia subsidiaries.
−Removed: In fiscal year 2020, we entered
−Removed: into a general shipping agency service agreement with Mandarine Bulk Ltd.
−Removed: as the sole general shipping agency and a shipping management
−Removed: services agreement with Qingdao Lizhou Ship Management Co., Ltd.
−Removed: We have expanded our business to increase sales revenue in the United
−Removed: States and get more customers who can settle in U.S.
−Removed: In fiscal 2024, while we
−Removed: continue to provide our current traditional logistics business, we will integrate the traditional business with modern technology to
−Removed: develop a brand-new business model.
−Removed: On September 27, 2020, we signed a MOU with EMB Technology Co., LTD (“EMB”).
−Removed: and EMB will combine the advantages of traditional logistics business/new technology and match the marketing economic requirements of
−Removed: the post-covid-19 world, gathering our many years of industry experience and customer group, with big data analysis, artificial intelligence,
−Removed: machine learning technologies, research and development platforms for the new business model, joint business partner’s data interface,
−Removed: to change the traditional business model from delivery to businesses into delivery directly to customers.
−Removed: At the same time, we plan to
−Removed: strengthen the research and development force to complete the transformation of the company’s business model and profit model step by
−Removed: After deep market research and demand analysis, with the actual situation in North America, iterative developing a certain popular
−Removed: App of high customer coupling, easy to form the functional industrial chain and derivative products and related services.
−Removed: We also expect
−Removed: to make achievements in the remote service industry include the service industry of enterprise portal, and the service industry of ERP
−Removed: customization/implementation/maintenance for small and medium-sized businesses, try to create a new milestone in the co mpany’s
+Added: to explore cutting-edge technologies in new energy, such as the development of high-efficiency solar panel materials and innovative waste
+Added: recycling processes, and actively acquire small new energy companies with potential to rapidly expand our business footprint;
+Added: vivid cases and data to showcase the company’s outstanding achievements in the field of new energy and attract public attention, and
+Added: organize new energy science activities to enhance brand reputation and social responsibility;
+Added: Develop customized sales plans
+Added: for different customer groups and cooperate with financial institutions to launch new energy project financing services to reduce customer
+Added: costs and promote sales growth.
+Added: and Strategic Plan
+Added: leveraging our extensive business relationships, technical ability and in-depth knowledge of the shipping industry, our goal is to further
+Added: strengthen our position as a leading global logistics solution provider who offers innovative resolutions to better address complex issues
+Added: in different aspects in the entire shipping and freight logistics chain.
+Added: we plan to build a solar energy production facility in the United States.
+Added: The Company actively seeks cooperation with multiple parties.
+Added: It plans to jointly develop new energy technologies with scientific research institutions to enhance its strength, to cooperate with
+Added: solar energy companies to establish recycling channels, to join hands with environmental protection organizations to promote concepts,
+Added: and to cooperate with the government to participate in projects and obtain support.
Our Customers
−Removed: Our main customers for
−Removed: the fiscal years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 is Chongqing Iron & Steel Ltd.
−Removed: For the years ended June 30, 2023 and
−Removed: 2022, Chongqing Iron & Steel Ltd.
+Added: main customers for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 are Chongqing Iron & Steel Ltd .
+Added: For the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, Chongqing Iron
accounted for 77.2% and 52.7% of the Company’s revenues, respectively.
−Removed: years ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, SOSNY accounted for 16.1% and 27.9% of the Company’s gross revenue.
−Removed: Our Suppliers
+Added: For the years ended June 30, 2024
+Added: and 2023, SOSNY accounted for nil and 16.1% of the Company’s gross revenue.
operations consist of working directly with our customers to understand in detail their needs and expectations and then managing local
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21.2% and 20.1% of our total purchases, respectively.
−Removed: the year ended June 30, 2022, two suppliers accounted for approximately 26.3% and 24.1% of our total purchases, respectively.
−Removed: Our Strengths
−Removed: We believe that the following
−Removed: strengths differentiate us from our competitors:
+Added: For the year ended June 30, 2023, two suppliers accounted for approximately 19.6%
+Added: and 19.5% of our total purchases, respectively.
+Added: believe that the following strengths differentiate us from our competitors:
industry experience and problem-solving reputation .
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maintain strong long terms business relationship with them.
−Removed: leadership and a competent professional team .
−Removed: Our CEO is an industry veteran with more than thirty years of extensive industry experience
−Removed: including ten years working for COSCO, one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
−Removed: Most of our employees have marine business
−Removed: experience, and many of our managers/chief operators served in other large Chinese shipping companies prior to joining us.
−Removed: professionals and experienced staff, we believe that we provide the best services to our customers at competitive prices.
+Added: competent professional team .
+Added: Most of our employees have marine business experience, and many of our managers/chief operators served
+Added: in other large Chinese shipping companies prior to joining us.
+Added: With these professionals and experienced staff, we believe that we provide
+Added: the best services to our customers at competitive prices.
network and positive industry recognition.
−Removed: Doing business in China often requires a strong business network and support of key
−Removed: strategic partners.
−Removed: The Company served as one of the executive directors of China Association of Shipping Agencies & Non-Vessel-Operating
−Removed: Common Carriers (CASA), the authoritative industry association in China.
−Removed: We are the only non-state-owned enterprise represented on the
−Removed: CASA board guiding the development of the industry.
+Added: Doing business in China often requires a strong business network and support of key strategic
+Added: The Company served as one of the executive directors of China Association of Shipping Agencies & Non-Vessel-Operating Common
+Added: Carriers (CASA), the authoritative industry association in China.
+Added: We are the only non-state-owned enterprise represented on the CASA
+Added: board guiding the development of the industry.
Our good reputation and industry recognition enables us to maintain strong relationships
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organization and a flexible business model.
−Removed: Although we are a small business with limited resources, we have a cohesive and
−Removed: effective organizational structure with the goal of maximizing customer value while minimizing waste.
−Removed: Our unique flexible business model
−Removed: allows us to quickly respond to changing market demand and offer our customers innovative problem-solving solutions, quality customer
−Removed: service, and competitive prices to achieve greater market acceptance and gain additional market share.
+Added: Although we are a small business with limited resources, we have a cohesive and effective
+Added: organizational structure with the goal of maximizing customer value while minimizing waste.
+Added: Our unique flexible business model allows
+Added: us to quickly respond to changing market demand and offer our customers innovative problem-solving solutions, quality customer service,
+Added: and competitive prices to achieve greater market acceptance and gain additional market share.
● U.S.-registered
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can also help us carry out or accelerate our growth strategies.
−Removed: Our Opportunities
−Removed: For more than thirty years,
−Removed: the shipping and freight logistics industry has been operated under traditional business models without meaningful change.
−Removed: Many of these
−Removed: business practices are inefficient and problematic;
−Removed: therefore, maintaining an innovative mindset is critical to achieving continuous business
−Removed: success and growth.
−Removed: We are a value-added logistics solution provider with successful past performance and individuals that have been in
−Removed: the industry for a long time.
−Removed: Instead of playing the traditional logistics broker role, we focus on providing technology solutions and
−Removed: innovative leading-edge services to bridge the asset-based world with the digital world.
−Removed: We shape our industry practice and profit model
−Removed: by analyzing wider developments both in the global markets and the technology industry so we can address unique problems that are currently
−Removed: pervasive across the shipping and freight logistics industry.
−Removed: We believe we can capture
−Removed: the business opportunity and grow our business organically or through acquisitions or strategic alliance by:
+Added: Opportunities
+Added: more than thirty years, the shipping and freight logistics industry has been operated under traditional business models without meaningful
+Added: Many of these business practices are inefficient and problematic;
+Added: therefore, maintaining an innovative mindset is critical to
+Added: achieving continuous business success and growth.
+Added: We are a value-added logistics solution provider with successful past performance and
+Added: individuals that have been in the industry for a long time.
+Added: Instead of playing the traditional logistics broker role, we focus on providing
+Added: technology solutions and innovative leading-edge services to bridge the asset-based world with the digital world.
+Added: We shape our industry
+Added: practice and profit model by analyzing wider developments both in the global markets and the technology industry so we can address unique
+Added: problems that are currently pervasive across the shipping and freight logistics industry.
+Added: believe we can capture the business opportunity and grow our business organically or through acquisitions or strategic alliance by:
to streamline our business operations and improve our operating efficiency through innovative technology, effective planning, budgeting,
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current market of China’s shipping agency industry is mature comparing to what it was ten years ago when the shipping agency industry
−Removed: was fueled by the massive construction of China’s infrastructure, yet the over-supply of shipping agencies has also shrunk the profits
−Removed: of the industry.
+Added: was fueled by the massive construction of China’s infrastructure, yet the over-supply of shipping agencies has also shrunk the
+Added: profits of the industry.
Many shipping agencies were constrained by the small size and the limited services.
−Removed: We have the professionalism and
−Removed: are the pioneers and leaders in the shipping agency industry in China.
−Removed: SINO is a NASDAQ-listed company that already has more flexibility
−Removed: in capital raise comparing to companies that are not on a U.S.
−Removed: major stock exchange or private companies.
−Removed: We already have a network that
−Removed: covers the US East coast, West coast, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Ningbo.
−Removed: We maintain strong relationships with customers
−Removed: and market resources.
−Removed: The current shipping agency market is more competitive yet enable companies like us who has better resources in
−Removed: this market niche to expand.
−Removed: Our Challenges
−Removed: We face significant challenges
−Removed: when executing our strategy, including:
+Added: We have the professionalism
+Added: and are the pioneers and leaders in the shipping agency industry in China.
+Added: We maintain strong relationships with customers and market
+Added: The current shipping agency market is more competitive yet enable companies like us who has better resources in this market
+Added: niche to expand.
+Added: terms of the new Solar Panel Business, the United States has a developed steel industry and has a certain demand for scrap steel.
+Added: the one hand, domestic steel production in the United States consumes scrap steel, especially when iron ore prices fluctuate, steel mills
+Added: may increase the use of scrap steel to reduce costs;
+Added: on the other hand, the demand for steel in the manufacturing industry and other
+Added: industries in the United States also indirectly drives the demand for scrap steel.
+Added: For example, the construction industry and the automobile
+Added: manufacturing industry are all large consumers of steel, and the development of these industries will increase the demand for scrap steel.
+Added: is estimated that North America has installed more than 80 GW of solar power, a figure that could grow to more than 400 GW by 2030.
+Added: News estimates that about 26,000 tons of photovoltaic panels were wasted in 2020, and as photovoltaic panels reach the end of their life
+Added: in the 2030s, the amount of waste will grow to millions of tons.
+Added: The solar recycling business market is a rapidly emerging but still
+Added: developing field.
+Added: As the global solar industry booms, a large number of photovoltaic modules will reach the end of their life and face
+Added: retirement in the next few years.
+Added: This brings both environmental challenges and huge market opportunities.
+Added: face significant challenges when executing our strategy, including:
the complexity and length of restructuring our business, we face the challenge of generating sufficient cash from our current business
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management may be forced to fulfill near-term performance goals that may not be consistent with the Company’s long-term vision.
−Removed: Our Competition
−Removed: The market segment that we
−Removed: now operate in, which is freight logistics services including warehouse services, does not have high entry barriers.
−Removed: In terms of our competition
−Removed: in China, there are many companies ranging from small to large that provide freight logistics services, and the state-owned companies
−Removed: in China generate a significant portion of the revenues in the industry.
−Removed: Our primary competitors in China are the China branches of international
−Removed: shipping companies or their exclusive agents in China.
−Removed: These companies include Evergreen Marine Corp., Orient Overseas Container Line,
−Removed: Ocean Network Express which includes Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd, Mitsui O.S.K.
−Removed: Lines and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha.
−Removed: The competition
−Removed: is intense due to the significant excess capacity.
−Removed: These companies have greater service capabilities, a larger customer base and more
−Removed: financial, marketing, network and human resources than we do.
−Removed: Most of them engage in a wide range of businesses and involve many aspects
−Removed: of the industry chain.
−Removed: However, we focus on providing tailored solutions and value-added services to customers in freight logistic services.
+Added: market segment that we now operate in, which is freight logistics services including warehouse services, does not have high entry barriers.
+Added: In terms of our competition in China, there are many companies ranging from small to large that provide freight logistics services, and
+Added: the state-owned companies in China generate a significant portion of the revenues in the industry.
+Added: Our primary competitors in China are
+Added: the China branches of international shipping companies or their exclusive agents in China.
+Added: These companies include Evergreen Marine Corp.,
+Added: Orient Overseas Container Line, Ocean Network Express which includes Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd, Mitsui O.S.K.
+Added: Lines and Nippon Yusen
+Added: Kabushiki Kaisha.
+Added: The competition is intense due to the significant excess capacity.
+Added: These companies have greater service capabilities,
+Added: a larger customer base and more financial, marketing, network and human resources than we do.
+Added: Most of them engage in a wide range of
+Added: businesses and involve many aspects of the industry chain.
+Added: However, we focus on providing tailored solutions and value-added services
+Added: to customers in freight logistic services.
As a boutique company with limited resources and history, we face intense competition.
−Removed: Our ability to grow in our industry depends on
−Removed: (1) our deep understanding of the complexity of industry issues and challenges and (2) our ability to develop optimal solutions to respond
−Removed: to the identified issues and provide effective problem-solving strategies to our targeted customers.
−Removed: In terms of our competition
−Removed: in the United States, the freight logistics services industry is well developed, highly fragmented, and competition is fierce nationwide.
+Added: ability to grow in our industry depends on (1) our deep understanding of the complexity of industry issues and challenges and (2) our
+Added: ability to develop optimal solutions to respond to the identified issues and provide effective problem-solving strategies to our targeted
+Added: terms of our competition in the United States, the freight logistics services industry is well developed, highly fragmented, and competition
+Added: is fierce nationwide.
Our primary competitors in the U.S.
−Removed: are local warehouse services providers and freight forwarding companies in Houston, for example, Bizto
−Removed: LLC, Golden Eagle Guns LLC, and Smart Supply Chain.
−Removed: Competition in the freight logistics services industry is driven by factors such as
−Removed: price, service quality, technology, and geographic reach.
−Removed: Companies that can offer a combination of these factors are often more competitive
−Removed: in the market.
−Removed: Additionally, companies that can adapt to changing customer demands and market trends, such as the shift towards e-commerce,
−Removed: are likely to be more successful in the long term.
−Removed: We aim at providing tailored and valued-added services for our international clients
−Removed: with needs for U.S.
+Added: are local warehouse services providers and freight forwarding companies in
+Added: Houston, for example, Bizto LLC, Golden Eagle Guns LLC, and Smart Supply Chain.
+Added: Competition in the freight logistics services industry
+Added: is driven by factors such as price, service quality, technology, and geographic reach.
+Added: Companies that can offer a combination of these
+Added: factors are often more competitive in the market.
+Added: Additionally, companies that can adapt to changing customer demands and market trends,
+Added: such as the shift towards e-commerce, are likely to be more successful in the long term.
+Added: We aim at providing tailored and valued-added
+Added: services for our international clients with needs for U.S.
domestic logistics services.
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are not subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
−Removed: Intellectual Property
−Removed: of the date of this Report, we do not have any registered patents, copyrights, or trademarks other than two pending trademark applications
−Removed: for “Thor” and “Thor Miner.” We have seven registered domain names, including our corporate website https://www.singularity.us/.
+Added: of the date of this Report, we do not have any registered patents, copyrights, or trademarks.
+Added: We have seven registered domain names,
+Added: including our corporate website https://www.singularity.us/.
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